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SEROSITY

8 letters

Definition of SEROSITY

noun

The quality or state of being serous.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Compare French sérosité. See serous.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,185)

Romance

branch · 15.5% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Every French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SEROSITY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 154
Its one board, across 154 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
14
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

saintpeter74PATRONContributor

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SEROSITY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SEROSITY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EIORSSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start SEROSI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SEROSITIES

Could you have found SEROSITY?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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